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(No Model.) I 5 SheetsS heet 1. J. J. TAYLOR, 2d. BOTTLE CQRKINGMACHINE. No. 445,095. Patented Jan.-20, .1891.

(No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. J. TAYLOR, 2d. BOTTLE GORKING MACHINE.

No.- 445,095. Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

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(No Model.) ,5 Sheets-Sheet 4. J J TAYLOR, 2d BOTTLE GORKING MACHINE.

Patented m. 20, 1891.

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J. J. TAYLOR, 2d. BOTTLE GOBKING MACHINE.

Patented Jan. 20,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. TAYLOR, 2]), OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO EZRA T.HAZELTINE, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-CORKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,095, dated January20, 1891.

Application filed June 28, 1888. Serial No. 278,435. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. TAYLOR, 2d, a citizen of the United Statesresiding at Varren, in the county of lVarren and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-CorkingMachines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled[O in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the aceompanying drawings, and to letters or figures ofreference marked thereon. which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved apparatus whichwill automatically feed and present corks to the necks of bottlesarranged in a series of rows and drive them into the same.

In my improved apparatus a bottle-carrier successively presents thenecks of a row of bottles to a series of cork-holding cylinders to whichcorks have been automatically fed. A series of peculiar-shaped plungersdescend twice against the corks in the act of driving them, and thecorks themselves are automati' eally turned during the driving operationto present different portions of the top surfaces of the corks to theimpact of the plungers to prevent breaking the surfaces of the same.

I will now proceed to describe definitely the manner in which I havecarried out my invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva- 5 tion of myimproved corkingapparatus. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thesame. Figs. 3 and 4c aredetached detail views. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the frame. Figs. 6 and 7are detached detail views. Fig. 8 is a section of the upper portion ofmy improved corking apparatus. Fig. 9 is a top plan view of the same.Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the cork-supply cylinders, partly insection. Figs. 11 and 12 show, respectively, a side and front view ofthe cam on the main shaft of my apparatus;

and Fig. 13 is a detail view.

Referring to the drawings, 1 1 are the main supports of my improvedcorking-maehine, provided on their outer sides with the projectingflanges 2 and on their inner sides with the recesses or slides 3. (SeeFig. at.)

Rigidly secured to the main supports 1 1 are the horizontal tracks a t,upon which the bottle-carrier 5 is moved. Two vertical bars 6 6 arearranged to slide in the projecting flanges 5 5 2 on the outer side ofthe main support 1 and connected at their upper ends by the bar 7, towhich the plungers S are rigidly secured, and connected at their lowerends by the bar 9. This bar 9, connecting the vertical bars 6 6, passesthrough vertical slots in the main supports 1, and has secured at itscenter the rod 10, (see Fig. 11,) having the small pin or projection 11,which rides in the groove 13 of the cam 12 on the main shaft 14.

To the inner sides of the main supports 1 and operating in the recessesor slides 3 are the vertical bars 15. These bars 15 are rigidly securedto or integral with the cylinder holder or head 16 and at their lowerends are connected by the rod 17.

Loosely pivoted in the main supports 1 is the rod 18, which has rigidlysecured to it the short arm 19, (see Fig. 7 which is connected to thepivoted lever-handle 21- by the connect- 7 5 ing-rod 20. Two small arms23 are also rigidly secured at one end to the rod 18 and looselyconnected to the connecting-rod 17 at their other ends. It will be seenthat by the manipulation of the lever handle 21, ful- 8o crumed at 22,the vertical bars 15, and with them the head 16, can be raised orlowered by means of the mechanism just described.

Just inside of either of the supports1(see Fig. 13) are the levers 21and 25, which are also used to raise the vertical bars 15, andwith themthe cylinder holder or head 16. The short lever 2a is loosely pivoted atone end to the main support or frame 1, and at its other end, resting onthe main shaft 14:, is loosely connected 0 with one end of the shortlever 25. This 1ever 25 is pivoted at its other end to the rod 17.

Rigidly secured to the main shaft 14 orintegral therewith are theprojecting pins 26, which while passing under the lever-arms 2 1 9 5cause them to rise and with them raise the cylinder holder or head 16 bymeans of the lever 25, connecting-rod 17, and vertical bars 15.

A bar 27 (see Fig. 5) is loosely pivoted in the tracks or frame 4 andhas rigidly attached [00 at one end the lever-handle 28. A short arm 29is rigidly secured to the bar 27 and at its 1o carrier5.

35 them to the cork-carrier 44.

other end is loosely pivoted to the connecting-arm 30, which is in turnpivoted at its other end to the'sliding batSl. This sliding bar 31 hasarranged at one end a pivoted 5 catch 32, which engages with a rack-bar33 (see Fig. 6) in the bottle-carrier 5. As the bar 27 is oscillated bythe manipulation of the lever-handle 28, the sliding bar 31, with itscatch 32, passes back and forth under the \Vhen the lever-handle 28 isturned to the right, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, it causes thesliding bar 31, with its catch 32, which is in engagement with therack-bar 38, to pass to the right, carrying with it the I 5bottle-carrier 5 a distance equal to the width of one bottle, and whenthe lever-arm 28 is returned to its former position the sliding bar 31,with its catch 32, returns the catch, passing under the rack-bar and byits own weight dropping into engagement with the next tooth oftherack-bar. 7

Justinside of the lever-handle 28 and rigidly secured to the oscillatingbar 27 is the short arm 34, (see 2,) which is loosely pivo'ted to theconnecting-rod 35, which is in turn loosely pivoted to a short arm 36.This short arm 86 is rigidly secured to another os- 'c ill'ating shaft37 by the adj listing-screw 38. This oscillating shaft 37, resting inbearings 39 on the box or casing 40, has secured thereto casing 40, andis held in its horizontal posi-- 4o tion by the guides 45.

At the front end of the cork-carrier 44 is arranged a series of holes 46for the reception of the corks, andbetween these holes are elongatedprojections or guides 47, which serve to 45 bring the holes 46 directlyunder the supplyeylinders 48 as the carrier is brought to its rearwardposition to receive the corks 51 from the supply-cylinders 48.

In each supply-cylinder (see Fig. 10) is arranged on the top of the rowof corks a Weight 49, having two small projections 50 passing outthrough the cylinders, as seen in Fig. 1, and should the corks becomeclogged they can easily be forced down by drawing down 5 5 the weight 49by its projections 50. Two stops 52, securely fastened to and projectingabove thecylinder holder or head 16, serve to limit the forward movementof the cork-carrier 44. The supply-cylinders 48, after being filled withcorks 51, are attached to the front face of the'casing 40 by a longdovetail slide and with their open ends facing and corks resting uponthe casing 44.

In the head-piece 16 are arranged a series of small cylinders 53, havingtapering openings 54 and: resting in recesses 57 on the smallprojections 55. These small cylinders are held loosely in position bythe small screw 56, which is screwed into the back of the head 16 andinto the recess 57, allowing the cylinders 53 to be raised should aslight variation in the height of the bottles occur, and at the sametime holding'the cylinders in place, so as not to be removed entirelyfrom the head.

To the outer side of one of the main supports 1 is loosely pivoted ashort arm 58, which has an adjustable projection 59. (See Figs. 3 and4.) This arm 58 passes under the main shaft 14, which has rigidlyattached thereto at this point a cam or projection 60, which, whilepassing over the projection 59 on the arm 58, presses it downward, andwith it pulls down the wire 61, attached to the end of the arm 58. Thiswire 61 is connected to a bellcrank lever 62, (see Figs. 1 and 4,) whichin turn pulls the short lever 63, which is fulcrumed at 64 and looselypivoted to a connecting-rod 65, this rod 65 being connected to all thecylinders 53 by short arms 66, which are rigidly secured to thecylinders at one end and pivoted to the connecting-rod 65 at their otherends, and as at this point the plungers are down upon the corkst'hecylinders are held in their turned position, and when released fromthe pressure of the plungers they turn back to their normal position bythe action of the "spring 67, which is fastened at. one end to'thebell-crank lever 62 and at its other end to the stop 52. It will beobserved that the plungers 8 in the cross-bars 7 are of a peculiarconstruction, being formed of one piece as they pass through the bar 7and divided at their lower ends into four strips or sections slightlysprungapart. This peculiar construction, in combination with the turningof the corks, entirely preventsthe splitting'of the corks and assuresasmooth flat surface to them after having been forced into the bottles.

The operation of my improved corking-machine is as follows: Thelever-handle 21 is first turned to the right, bringing it into theposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and

by the combination of levers shown in Fig. 7 causes the cylinder holderor head 16 to be raised to allow the first row of bottles 68 in thecarrier 5 to pass into position under it. The lever-handle 28 is thenalso turned to the right, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 5, which turnsthe bar 27 in the tracks or frame 4 a quarter of a revolution, whichalso turns the short arm 29, which is connected to the sliding bar 31'and carries it back a distance equal to one tooth of the rack-bar 33 orthe width of one bottle 68, and at the same time, through the'action ofthe levers 34, 35, 36, and 41 and their connections, the cork-carrier 44is slid back, so that its openings 46 are directly under thesupply-cylinders 48, and the corks drop into them under the action ofthe weights 49. Now the lever-handle 21 is brought back to its firstposition, which brings the head 16, holding the cylinders 53, downfirmly upon the heads of the bottles, and having one of IIO the smallcylinders resting over the mouth of each bottle, and the set-screws 5G,placed in the head 16, hold the cylinders in position, at the same timeallowing a slight variance in the height of the bottles should suchoccur. After the head 16 has been brought down upon the bottles (58 thelever-handle 28 is brought back to its first position, and with it thesliding bar 3], with its catch 32, which engages with the next tooth ofthe rack-bar 33 preparatory to drawing the next row of bottles under thehead 16, and at the same time sliding the cork-carrier (now having itsopenings or holes filled wit-h corks) forward until it meets the stops52, where the corks will drop out of the openings 46 and into thecylinders 1y turning the crank 69, which is mounted on the main shaft1-1, to the right the small pawl or projection 60, mounted upon the mainshaft 14:, (see Fig. 3,) carries the lever-arm 58 downward, and throughthe intervening mechanism, as before described, slightly turns the smallcylinders 53 in the head 10. Atthe same time as the cylinders are beingturned the plungers 8 are brought down upon the corks in the cylinders53 by means of the cam 12, with its groove 13, which has riding withinit the pin 11 of the connecting-rod 10, and, as seen in Fig. 1, theconnecting-rod 10 is secured to the cross-bar 9, which is fastened atits ends to the vertical bars 6, at the upper ends of which the bar 7 issecured, holding the plungers 8, and when the cam 12 has madeone-quarter of a revolution the plungers 8 will have passed down throughthe cork-carrier 44 and into the short cylinders 53, partially forcingthe cork into the mouth of the cylinder, and as the cam continues theplungers rise, releasing the pressure on the corks 51,which will allowthe cylinders 53 to return to their normal position by the action of thespring 67, (see Fig. 4,) and as the cam continues in its revolution theplungers again press down upon the corks 51, this time forcing the corksinto place in the mouths of the bottles. As the cam 12 completes itsrevolution two small pawls or projections 26 on the main shaft 14 passunder and raise the levers 24 and 25, (see Fig. 123,) which in turnraise the cross-bar 17 and vertical bars 15 and the cylinder holder orhead 16, thus releasing the corks from the short cylinders should any oftheir ends remain protruding into the same, thus completing theoperation.

I claim 1. In a bottle-corking machine, the combination, With a mainframe, a traveling bottlecarrier, a series of corlodriving plungers, aseries of cork-supply cylinders, and a corkearrier which receives thecorks from the cylinders and moves them beneath the plungers, of aseries of cork-holding cylinders arranged beneath the cork-carrier torest upon the bottle-mouths, a rotating shaft, and devices connectedwith the cork-holding cylinders and operated by the shaft to elevate thesaid cork-holding cylinders after the corks have been driven into thebottles, substantially as described.

2. In a bottlc-corking machine, the combination, with a bottle-carrier,cork-driving plungers, cork-supply cylinders, and a corkcarrier, of aseries of axiallyoscillating corkholding-cylinders arranged below thecorkcarrier and means for axially oscillating the cork-holdingcylinders, substantially as described.

In a bott-le-corking machine, the combination, with a bottle-carrier,reciprocating cork-driving plungers, cork-supply cylinders, and acoi'locarriel', of a series of axially-turning cork-holding cylinderslocated beneath the cork-carrier, a main drive-shaft, and mechanismoperated by the drive-shaft to axially turn the cork-holding cylinders,substantially as described.

at. In a bottle-corking machine, the combination, with a bottle-carrier,cork-driving plungers, and a cork-carrier, of a rising and fallincylinder-holder located below the corkcarrier, a series ofaxially-oscillating corkholding cylinders carried by and journaled insaid cylinder-holder, and means for oscillating the cork-holdingcylinders, substantially as described.

5. In a bottle-corking machine, the combination, with a bottle-carrier,aseries of corkdriving plungers, and a cork-carrier, of a series ofaxially-oscillating cork-holding cylinders and means for oscillating thecork-holding cylinders and operating the plungers to give each cork twoblows, substantially as described.

6. In a bottle-eorking machine, the combination, with a bottle-carrier,a series of corkdriving plungers, and a cork-carrier, of a se ries ofaxially-oscillating cork-holding cylinders between the cork-carrier andbottle-carrier and a rotating cam connected with the plungers andCODS'E] noted to operate the plungers for imparting two blows to eachcork, substantially as described.

'7; In a bottle-corking machine, the combination of a series ofaxially-oscillating corkholders with reciprocating cork-drivingplungers, each having its driving-head divided into a series ofsections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN J. TAYLOR, 2D.

Witnesses:

GHAs. Dmsnoon, JAMES CABLE.

